A review by uuuultraviolennnnt
The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak

emotional informative mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

"because that is what nature did to death, it transformed abrupt endings into a thousand new beginnings"

A creative exploration of life after mass death; human death, animal death and plant death alike; a meaningful prose that seeks to learn how memory can be harboured without its dignity, how history becomes the unwanted baggage carried silently by diasporas. pain- an unintentional birth right passed on from wounded parents. Grief- the human emotion most strongly attached to new seasons, new beginnings